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title: He was dressed in rich clothing, but was bent with age, and was feeb… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He was dressed in rich clothing, but was bent with age, and was feeble and gray. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 53

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He was dressed in rich clothing, but was bent with age, and was feeble and gray.

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**What happens:** dress, bend, be · **To what, where:** Robin, rich clothing

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:11:53
# text = He was dressed in rich clothing, but was bent with age, and was feeble and gray.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	feeble	feeble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past · passive |  | Robin |  | rich clothing |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **bend** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | with age |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V» |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | feeble *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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